Película musical by Raffaella Carrà

Criticism of Exploits Exploits, a musical film that includes the musical successes of Raffaella Carrà. Directed by a newcomer Nacho Álvarez, the proposal is affected by numerous problems that are imposed by an excessively simple script, cartoony characters and poor casting choices, among others. The film, after its passage through theaters, is available within the Amazon Prime Video catalog.

Synopsis

Mary (Ingrid García Jonsson) is a young woman who flees from the altar to fly free, fulfill her dreams and fall in love. The young woman, recently arrived in Madrid, begins to work at the airport as a flight attendant but fate will want her to be discovered as a dancer for a variety television program marked by the censorship of the early 70s.

Criticism of the film Explode Explode

With the one that occupies our criticism today, we are surely facing one of the worst proposals that Spanish cinema released in 2020, and there were not too many due to the pandemic. A real nonsense script that comes under the excuse of making an emotional tribute to the songs of the great Raffaella Carrà; but rather the reason can be summed up in throwing nostalgia and mega hits known to all in order to send people to theaters. Thus came the movie Explodes Explodes until the spectators on October 2, 2020, taking advantage of the reopening of cinemas during the pandemic that plagues us.

A grim script

Many are the problems that plague the movie Explodes Explodes, but perhaps the most serious is its disastrous script. A script that lacks weight, interesting plots and a credible conflict. It’s okay that your goal is to find color, fun and laughter, but can you turn the movie theater into a real party? No. Mainly because the gags do not work, resulting completely out of date and inserted out of time with shoehorn. Everything in the film is forced, without grace and tremendously predictable, and that, how could it be otherwise, suffers its final result.

It also has stereotypical and cartoonish characters to the fullest. They are not credible at any point in the plot, both for happiness and for tears. His only clear mission seems to be to introduce under some little excuse some poor musical numbers.

Musical numbers entered with shoe

The musical movie Explode Explode It is also affected by a problem that we have already observed on numerous occasions in musicals on the Gran Vía -or surroundings-: the lack of criteria when inserting the musical numbers into the story in question. Anything goes. Any excuse is good to shoehorn one of the topics Raffaella Carrà, as if the script of the film was capable of supporting any impudence. Something reminiscent of the disastrous final result of musicals like ‘40 The Musical‘-with songs that have sounded on the Los 40 Principales station-,’I would like to be‘-the musical of the Dynamic Duo- o’Accomplices, the musical‘-the musical tribute to the group Cómplices-. You would like to know from a servant what opinion the Carrà said “tribute” in the private sphere …

The casting, another mistake

There is no doubt, the cast of the movie Explodes Explodes He tries it and gives himself thoroughly to provide “the spark” necessary to a proposal that has the script against it. Unfortunately they do not succeed for various reasons that we will go over to review, and that begin with poor casting choices.

The protagonist of the story is Mary, played by the actress Ingrid García Jonsson. She does herself a disservice in this role, which first of all does not correspond to her not even by age. The script draws a naive and very young girl who tries to fulfill her dreams as a dancer, but the actress is already far from that innocence in her early thirties. Also, I’m sorry to say it so directly, he doesn’t sing well and when it comes to the subject of dancing, the great aspiration of his character, he does what he can. If we add to all this the cartoonishness of her character, the forced nature of some scenes and the simplicity of the plots, we find ourselves before one of the worst characters that the actress has been able to give life so far.

His co-star, and friend of Mary in fiction, it is Verónica Echegui. The actress defends herself with greater confidence before the character of Protection. This does not justify her nominations for Best Supporting Actress to Los Goya or Best Supporting Actress in Los Feroz; This milestone is only justified by the lack of options left by the billboard in this 2020 pandemic and the almost total absence of comedies among the candidates.

The rest of the cast is completed with names of the stature of Fernando Guallar, Pedro Casablanc, Fernando Tejero, Natalia Millán, and that unfortunately they do not finish convincing either.

Nacho Álvarez’s debut feature

The person responsible for this endless number of bad decisions … its director, a newcomer Nacho Alvarez, who also signs the script of the tape with Eduardo Navarro Y David Esteban Cubero. A missed opportunity to give a new success to the musical in Spanish cinema, a genre that does not have many annual bets on the billboard. The latest example of good performance of a musical on the big screen has been ‘The call‘ directed by Los Javis, and before this we can only remember with nostalgia the proposals of Emilio Martínez Lázaro entitled ‘The Other Side of the Bed‘(2002) and’The 2 sides of the bed‘ (2005).

Final opinion of the movie Explode Explode

As a final conclusion to the movie Explodes Explodes (2020) to say that we are facing one of those tapes in which the viewer will have a hard time reaching the credits. As we have already said, nothing works for various reasons, including a too simple script that does not know how to correctly insert the songs of Raffaella Carrà. Not even the choreographies of Toni Espinosa, responsible for some of the musicals that we see on Gran Vía in Madrid, nor the music of Roque Banos they manage to make us dream of the colorful universe that they paint us between censorship and censorship. The party is over.

Technical Sheet and Release Date

Original title: Explode Explode
Gender: Comedy, Censorship, Musical, Spanish Cinema
Official site: Movie Explodes Explodes
Country: Spain
Idiom: Español
Release date in Spain: October 2, 2020 in theaters
Producer: Spain-Italy co-production; Tornasol Films, The Substitute Producciones AIE, Indigo Film, TVE
Distributor: Universal Pictures, Amazon Prime Video
Duration: 116 min.
Anus: 2020
Age rating: Recommended for all audiences

Artistic file

Direction: Nacho Alvarez
Screenplay: Eduardo Navarro, David Esteban Cubero, Nacho Alvarez
Song: Roque Banos (Songs: Raffaella Carrà)
Photography: Juan Carlos Gomez
Distribution: Ingrid García Jonsson, Verónica Echegui, Fernando Guallar, Pedro Casablanc, Fernando Tejero, Natalia Millán, Giuseppe Maggio, Fran Morcillo, Carlos Hipólito, Ainara Arizu, Sara Martin Aparicio, Eva Conde, Malala Diaz, Ainhoa ​​Aierbe, Nacho Otaola, Carlos Olalla, Ana Costa, Naima Sakho, Mary Villafaina, Lorena de Orte, Ane Leturiaga, Aroa Garez, Tamar Vela, Marta Arteta, Núria Torrentallé, Teresa Poveda, Toni Espinosa

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